I'd like to, but its been awhile since I last read up on Near-Death Experiences.

I've read a bit of Dr. Moody's work, a book called "Return from Tomorrow" (basically the original NDE book), and a couple other thoughtful books on the subject. One was done by an investigative journalist and the other by a couple of doctors. I have the books at home (where, of course, I am away from until tonight). I believe Dr. Moody started out as a strong skeptic and over time began to change his views on NDEs, using research and investigation into the subject.

I'll try to explain it better soon. I apologize for not being able to.

I remember seeing a program on the Discovery Channel a few months ago looking into the phenomenon of alien abduction.

One of the possibilities discussed in the program was that a lot of people who belive they have experienced alien abduction have had a long period of sleep deprevation and are suffering a lack of oxygen to the brain - their brain starts to record false images of being lifted above oneself, of lights and beings, usually the grey aliens associated with abduction. It was also postulated that during near death experiences the similar lack of oxygen can result in the various religious figures being seen.

I have had an oxygen starved moment. 72 hours without sleep and I was in a car heading homewards towards my bed I was going down a stretch of the A13 that I know very well and saw many, many more bridges over the road than there actually are, and people walking over the road in front of the car. My friend was driving (he had got to sleep the previous night) and the following day commented on how i was reacting to things that were not there, shouting that we had just run people over etc.

Actually, gwaernardel, "Enoch" which I qouted, is an exception. The book was found with the Dead Sea Scrolls and therefore part of the canon of that era(1st century A.D) also Jude, in his small epistle, mentions the book of Enoch. So Enoch was considered canon by 1st century Jews and Christians.

I grew up with 2 religions, Roman Catholic and Judaism. The catholic's as I understand it (and thats not very well) believe in the whole fire and brimstone idea where sinners live eternally to be punished for there sins. Jews believe that Hell is a place were everyone goes for a short period of time to be cleansed and then sent to heaven. But the Jew interpretation of Heaven and Hell is cloudy. There are exceptions for some people such as Hitler, he is in Hell forever. I also heard of another interpretation where Hell is a long road that never ends that you walk forever.

Ah, thanks for clearing that up, Chris2
As far as I know, Jews don't really believe in a heaven or hell. They believe that their afterlife is based on their actions in life. They think that God punishes those who do wicked things in this life. They also believe that in the afterlife those who are evil will not reach the same degree of happiness as those who are righteous and good in life. So the idea of a Hell is kind of unnecessary to them.